Retainer vs Vouch - What's the difference?
retainer | vouch |
A dependent or follower of someone of rank.
A paid servant, especially one who has been employed for many years.
Any thing or person that retains.
A fee one pays to reserve the other's time for services.
(dentistry): A device that holds teeth in position after orthodontic treatment.
To take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest.
To warrant; to maintain by affirmations; to attest; to affirm; to avouch.
* Atterbury
To back; to support; to confirm.
* Milton
To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.
* Blackstone
(obsolete) To call; to summon.
* Sir T. Elyot
To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation.
* Jonathan Swift
To call as a witness.
* Dryden
To assert; to aver; to declare.
Warrant; attestation.
As nouns the difference between retainer and vouch
is that retainer is a dependent or follower of someone of rank while vouch is warrant; attestation.As a verb vouch is
to take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest.retainer
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Noun
(en noun)- This lawyer charges a retainer for his work .
See also
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* *vouch
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Verb
(es)- They made him ashamed to vouch the truth of the relation, and afterwards to credit it.
- I can vouch that the match took place.
- Me damp horror chilled / At such bold words vouched with a deed so bold.
- He vouches' the tenant in tail, who ' vouches over the common vouchee.
- [They] vouch (as I might say) to their aid the authority of the writers.
- He will not believe her until the elector of Hanover shall vouch for the truth of what she has affirmed.
- Vouch the silent stars and conscious moon.
- (Shakespeare)
